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trlouiii., • is must pail)tui tO nit to state, that the expedations which I then chelished have been disappointed. On this day fortnight, I stated it o be my opinion, 'founded on the best view which I was able to make of all the circumstances of the case,. that I should not feel justified in re commending any further delay in the appointment of a substitute for the Royal:Authority, unless his . . .Alajesty, diiring the interval otadjourinnent, should advance so Satisfaaorily in hid recovery, as to render • , the contemplation of suCh a measure unnecessary.—. This opinion I still entertain—and, therefore, after 'having stated that the expeded improvement in his Maie,ty's health has not taken place (although I unquestionably entertain the Most sanguine hopes of his Majesty's' final recovery), nothing remains brine but to Propose that we should appoint a Committee of:our own to examine into the fci'vtits, and that we should thus establish on Parliamentary Record, the present incompetence of his Majety to Ischarge the tuna ions of Royalty. I shall pro ceed Sir 'to tnake• this motion immediately, a s I conceive that . sufficient notice has existed ,on the aubje&. My intention is to propbe, that the Corn- 7 mittee do consist of twenty-one Members,' and that • , if be composed of the following Gentlemen : Mr.• Secretary Ryder Right tion W. W. tote The Master of the Rolls Right Hon. Sir /. Newport Right Hon. G. Ponsonby Right Hon. Sir %V. Scott W. Wilberforce, Esq. S. Whitbread, Esq. Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan Rt. Hqn. Ld. Vis. Catlereagh . The Attorney-General Right Hon. Lord Vis. Milton W. Adam, Esq. Right Hon. G. Canning Hon. H. Lascelles Rt. Hon. Lord F. Cavendish Right Hon. H. Dundas Right Hon. H. Addington Right Hon. G. Tierney Right lion. C. B. Bathurst. 1 : It will be subsequently necessary for me to st bwit r • to the House', several motions with respe& to the powers of this Cocornittee i and to say something as to the ulterior course which- it is my.intention to pursue. At present, Sir, I shall confine myself to mcv - • • . - - •' l'hat a CcnirtittFe be appointed to examine the l'hy• sicans who hay. att.-ncled Alajesty during his illness, touching the stare of, his Nlajesty's health, and, to report to it4c Elmse thriven." i 111 . 1*, WHI'IBRI! A 0 expresse:i his regret—=a regret, he st,,ted, ju whlch numbers participated-7-thai. the mcasure now propused by the Bight Hou. Gentle man ha,rf not *been resorted to at an' earlier. periOd. He accused tl - e Right Honourable Gentleman (an a , tusation which, it unfounded might be', re pdted) of having, in d:rett contradiAtioo of the coa da 1 of his prudeceJsor in office ; colitinesrhis of the measures y.hich he had in contemplation to pursue to those Members of the flouse4of Comm. ins who - were friendly to his politics.' As the iligf), Hon. Gentleman had done him the.honour to name him as one of the Members of the propOSed Com.. inittee, he should say no more at present. When the Report of that Committee should be presented, an opportunity would arise for turthar discussion. • The motion, that a Committee be appointed to examine 'the Physicians, &c. was then agreed to'; as was olso a subsequent motion, that the ,Comutittee do consist of 21 Metntiets. Tile Gentlemen %/those names had been mentioned by the CHANCEL.LOR of the EXCHEQUER were then appointed to turn) the Committee, with the addi tion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER him sell ,(as the 11!0v,..r of the prOposition), and the sub stitini-n of T. StiEttLocK Goocu, Esq. for the Right Hon. C. B. BATHURST, he being ou or town. following motions w , re ilwit made by 'tile CH A NCELLOR Of tale ....A • CHEQUER, and severally agreed to " Tha the Committee have power to send for the f'hysi- Limos for the pot pose at es,anti,.tag than." , " That the Committee have power to adjourn front time to time, waitron' place to place, as may oe convenient to them ; :.no that they have leave to sit, not WlLllstillidllig itNy atij,yurrunent of the House." '• That no Member of the House, not a Member of the COIIIIIII tter, do attend their meetings." 'that the Cotrunigett do meet _immediately in the Speaket's Chamber." " That five be a Quorum." The CH ANCELL(PH of the ,EXCITEQUER Observed, tha , it k , as drsitut)le to insure a, till! an,attendance as possible at the approaching important discussion. He tiinuglit there was Teason to expect that the Re port of the Committee would be delivered on Mon day; of course it- must be printed. It was there fore his intention to propose Wednesday as the day on which the House should take the Report into con sideration. TO that day, therefore, he would move that the call of House be postponed. • •It was • coph.luently ordprett that . the House 41, huuld be called, over on Wednesday next. Adjourned to Monday. PRUSSIA. EIT:CREE REM-CITING THE' GENERAL SUPPRESSION OF ECULEIA,TICAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE MEN ONLY.. We, Fred. William, by the Grace of God, King of Prussia, con.).rierino., that the plans for Eecle,ias tical: Institutions and Convents, which have hitherto been endowed, 'are in pert not consonant with the objeas and ntcessiries of the times ; and, in part, may he better accomplished by different means': that aii nelijibouring States have adOpted the satire' mea that the punctual discharge of the contribu von to France can only be eft tea by this measure: that we by these ;means may diminish the other wise' heavy claims upon the private property of our We decree therefore as follows Art. -I, All Convents and other Ecclesiastical Con ifitutiOns, 'Bailiwicks, Cornmendaties, &c. whether of the notestant or Catholic Religion, must from This dare bo :tonsidered, trs 'the property of the 5E64.. 4 sures - - Art. 11. All Convents, &c. shall by this decree be abolished, and care shall be taken that peisons be compensated who have inhabited theM, or have claims upon them. Att. 111. From the day of the date of this decree, no annuity ahall be allowed, no novices be received. and no, person, instituted to any office belonging to them without our consent. No change of property shalt take place, no capital shall be collected, no debts contrasted,, and no inventories transferred : no ,new lease shall 'be . granted, and po others be. renew, ed ; all contraas made contrary to these di reaions are • Art. IV. W ; • shall leco.nnence fur the chief Et.clesiastical Orlicer., and with their advice, for the liberal s pensioning of the Priests,'and the schools, and hhall allow cobvents to he appropri.• ated so the educas inn of youth and the care of the sick.—Given at Berlin (Coultersiodp, FLED. ILLI~j~I HARDENBURG. 13,01 in, Nov, 16. • . MAILS. AR r, i F —I New-York, i Dublin, I s W:O.eftbrd. Lisbon, i Dunfm, - 2, Waterioal, • PRICE of sTocKs• _. THIS DAY Al' TW; /.%; ' Consols - 671 j wed. Ann. 66 66 j Omniurn • 5,r, f S u N. SOLEM QUIS I,lCift-E, FAI.SUSI•OI.)-DEIIT? LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBIM 14, 1810. . " Windsor Castle, Dec. t..;, ato. (" His MAJESTY has passed a good night. and is much the same this day as he was ytsteld:ls . as usUaly It is with much regret that wo becure Readers the following official account of a most gallant, b6t unfortunate aCtion at the Isle of France "'Admiralty Office, 14 18w " Intelligence has been received, that On•the 23d August, his Majesty's . ships Nereitte, Sirius, Magi cierme, and Ipkigenia, stood into tire Barbour iSud kat, in'the Isle of France, with a ‘iew to attack, all' roenly ' s squadron, of two frigates, a corvette, and an armed Indianan, lying at anchor there. In pushing for their stations alongside the enemy, the Sirius, , Maicierme, and Nereide,uuhappily grounded, and it was found impossible to get them off, though ttie utmost skill and gallantry insendeavonring to sate the ships, under circumstances of peculiar disad vantage,. s as disilayed. . " Alter two days _unremitting, but unavailing ex under the tire of the heavy batteries, Capt. Pm, abandoned all hope of being able to get off the Sirius and Alugicienne, lid they were in conse, q burnt by their own crews. " The situation in which the Nereide grounded enabled. the enemy to turn the'w hole fire of% their ships on her';, but even in this untquat contest, Captain WILLOUGHBY continued to fight her, to the last extremity, till every Officer and ►nan on board were cii her • killed or wOunded.- " kit the enemy's ships were driven on shore ) but one of the frigates was afterwards•got off, S and being joined by three others , fiom Port Louis,, they blockaded the Iphigenia at her anchorage tinder the Isle of Passe, on which Island (it having been pre viou,ly garrisoned by us) the crews of the Sirius.and Magicienne were landed." We regret to find that the Spanish Colonies in Soul h America continue to be in a very perturbed state; but it was' hardly to be expeEted that in 'an e;npire of such extent, and composed of such inatelial's,/ a perfea unanimity should prevail . at such a crisis as the preSent. Monte Video aid Buenos Ayres are in a state of aaual,- hostility, but we -hope that Ad miral Da COURCY will, by liiS•mediatiun, be able to restore tranquility. Last night Paris Papers to the Gth inst. arrived. They bring no news from Portugal,, except, indeed, an assertion, in the shape of a comment upon a pat sage itt an. English Paper, ,that as late. as the rsth of November the divisions of DROUST and GA RDA N E had not joined MASSENA. But the illoniieur has omitted to account to the people of France for the extraordinary tardinesi of DROUUT'S motions. Thai General told us early in October, . that he was in full march to effea a junelion with MASSENA, and seemed only to be apprehensive that he should not arrive time enough to participate. in the glorious . viaory by which the British force in Portugal was to be annihilated; and yet on the 15th of No vember the Moniteur says, that junction:had not taken place. The. 15th of November, it will be recollected, was the day/after MosENA brcke up from his position in front of the Allies, and began his retreat to Santarem ; so that it ra ther appears that MASSENA was falling back to join D ROL' ET, than that the latter was advancing'io join him. BUONAPARTE appears to be very sore upow the subject of the Exchange of Prisoners, and to feel that his conduct must excite the detestation of the people of France, and particularly of the French prisoners who are suffering in captivity from his ob stinate and implacable temper. • The Moniteur con. tains some details 'upon this stibject, to which We shall take an earlyopportunity of adverting. Yesterday, the, two Houses of. Parliament ,assem . bled, wben motions were made similieto those in' "/88, for the examination of 114; Majesty's, yhysi cians.. The Lord Chancellor,. the PreSideut of the .t 4 °VC', Council, and the Chanc,e:loi of phe ExChelnt r, wcllt to . Windsor yesterday morning, to consult with the Physicians upon the state of ,His MAJESTY'S health ; and though we are happy to find that Tl's medical attendants still retain ►he same,san guine hopes; of tkis final recovery that they always did, yet it was not thought- advisable to propose an other adjournment. ,_ ' The Commit lee proposed by:the Chancellor of the Exchequer, mid approved of by the House, consists of Members 4tleeted from both sides with the ut- most fairness. The Lords will appoint their Commit _ tee - by ballot_ this .day. The House of Cot - tin - ions i has tidjoutned rill Monday, when, it is presumed, the Committee will 'make their report the course of pioceediug w ill thrii br, that. it will be ordered to be printed, and taken . , into Considerationon,‘Yed nesday, on which day the House will be called -If -on - that day- His MAJESTY'S iLldlSpUSilit)ll }shoul:.l uutortunately continue, certani Resolutions, 'founded- upon• kiort, and opou the ekiStii:g state of Affairs, vi•cli‘be.propose,l l as was &tie in th e year 170 , 4. We c.innot, litiwever, avoidf Indulging a hope that Ole restotation of His AtlivSty'S Ver)A7 ittly turtner..roceeditigs unnecessary. . • This day the Cummii tee appointed by the House of to examine the Phy , ,ici4ns - Who iketi . iti attendance (A His MAJESTY during hi 6 Sent illness, met at, t welv,e o'clock, in the roam gene: . • tally called •.` The Secret Committee Cilawber." Tile whole tit the Men.thers as - sembled e , in number 2 I , were present, 'and those the Right Hun. It6BERT NnAs a, the Cilairman of the Contint.tee. The Physi . ciatis who. are in attendance for exa mination, are Drs. ReYrant.os', lIEDEIII.MN, and 1.3A1LL1E... Sir H. HALrolin and Dr. WILLIS are to be examined to-morrow. This morning advice was received of the safe arrival -at Portsmouth, of the Baling country ship troin . •Be9gal. She brings accounts of the capture of the ships Ceylon and If . yndltam, in the . Mosambique Channel, on 'th e i r p assage to I n di a,• and it has been reported that the Wyndham. bad been retaken by his M ijelty's ship Si, M . , and was fitting out as a man of war, at Bourbon. A serious 'accident had very nearly happened on Wedn 4 day List . . the Prince of WALvs. Royal Highness ,was rring to Windsor ;, when in. Kensington the Carriage .broke down. His Rua' Highness, hoi.vever; Inuit fortunately escaped un• hurt ;. which, considering the rapid rate at which `he is generally driven, is a subject of grateful consi deration. Every assistance ‘tdit.i.ot,..course iminedi aiety-tepdei'ed by the inhabitants. Alter dispatch ing a servant to Wict::SOr to atrylaint her iIIAiEnTY With the cause which tireventvd the intended visit of his Royal Highness, he returned to London, and dined with the Princess CHARLOTTE at her bowie. Letters , were yesterday received in town from Load BLANEY, who was taken I)lkm:et- in the affair at Malaga. His Lordship was at Granada, on the 22d of Novcrnber, where he was politely and hos pitably entertained by General SEBASTIAN! ) Who Was to send an escort . with his Lordship to Madrid, for which place he was to proceed in a tew days. . . _ The, cause of the Ainerican ship, which we stated yesterday to be under discussion in the liigh:Court of Admiralty, is that of the. Fax, aihich vessel sailed from the United States direct for France on the faith of the'revocation of the Chas of &alio and Milan, and is Aetained by the:captors, Under the Orders-in Council. As this Mit , involves the whole question between the United States and alns country, With respea to those Orders; , it has excited great interest and attention. It came on before Sir W. SCOTT on . 'Tuesday, and was postponed until this day. We learn that, on account of the delicate state of our relations with America, and the indecision of our Cabinet witilregar.d to this important question, that the judgment will be again ,deferred. . A signal station lass lately been established at Ho lyhead, which promises to be of great benefit to the mercantile interests of the country. 'A vein'ot tine coal, of the kind called Kendal coal, has been found on the banks of the stream di viding Heatlifield and Waldron parishes, in Sussex. The vein extends without interruption for about a quarter ofa mile in length, is in Soma from two to ten inches thick, lies near the surfice, at the bottom of Geer'a Wood,. and on the skirts of Tiltnacr, and is declared, by persons conversant in the trade, .to have every favourable iudicliion of quantity and quality. Similar appearances of coal are foundrn other parts of the abate parkhes. • Oa Friday afternoon, as one Spankie, a carter, was feturniug to Dundee from Duothope barracks, (where he had been c, tivej iug swift. gaud •.,) s horse took fright at the beating' of 'the diorn-•, and.sei off full gallop. Spankie was sitting on the shattS of his cart, (a ctiStom rather tooliequeut) and .being un able to extricate,himself trout that situation before the horse rea'clieLl the barrack gate, the . eart cane so - close to th‘ wall on the side he was ,that his legs' were literally torn nom him ! one of them being totally carried off, and the other hanging only by' a small piece of the skin. The. union vi ate luau was immedtateip•carried to the bat rack hospital, and ; had every attention paid him, but he died about No H o'cluck,next morning. We have authority to state, that ;Madame CATA-. LA NI is engaged at the'ANcit:T.Nluste, anti 'also for the whole nutnber 01 VOCAL CONCERTS, under the direction of Messrs. HAttltlSON, BARTLENIA*&, and GREA'TOREX, held at the Nt:•,v Rooms, lianovtr square ; and that she dot-s not sing at any other Sub- SuriOtott Concerts during tb ensuing 5015011., NAVAL NEW. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 2.—The follooAng came pas sengers in the Duke of Montrose packet, from the Brazils, that arrived here yesterday, viz. puchi m S. Goma, A. A. Dies Minanti Marquis, and *Manuel Aniieto Padilla, SpanLli Gentlemen ; and Stephen Adey. Four hundred artillery drivers are.ordered to ern' bark at this Port ; their destination is supposed to. be Li.boli. Last .night it blew agate of wind, but abated . toe wards the morning, and the shipping at this PO F t have not received any material damage. Arrived last.night the American brig Aftiry . and Ann, , belonging to Newbury Port, Capt. R. L . (..:LEVELAND, horn Naples, last from Lisbun,•with a • cargo consisting of rags, drugs, skins, siik, &c. ; iere the latter•place on the 20th of November, inscom pniy With a fleet consisting of about 20. sail, under convoy of t ‘co frigates, and parted with theM last Frida'y night; the fleet eneounteted several ycry • • • ;heavy gales, b u t none of them bad received any daniage 91 - consequeiii.a . . . puling the 0 - ale last night, - the Mart . and Ann anchored among the 'breakers near Mount Batten, ,and soon atier parted one cable, when it, was deem _ cd.expethent, to prevent ber driving ashore nn the rucks, to slip the other, and change her.atichotage, which was accordingly doiie, and she now rides safe in pgyater. , Arrived the cutter Ilfirancia, BLvair, from Lis boil, with a cargoof fruit, bound tv Falmouth . . • overshot the • latter place on Monday night the /Yi//ta,n, FAwCtiNEK, waster, of and for iLi 3 • rt from I.9ndbn, with a cargo ; the sloop Page SiYteil, CHAPMAN, of and for this Port, lion Ports' mouth,' with the loss of her top-mast ; the , tOIVARDS, of and 16r this Port from Cork, last fronl l'. ltnoutb ; his MajeAy.'s ships North Star, of 18 guns, Cdpt. Coe and Peacock, of 18 guns, Capt. PtAxs, troni ,separaie druizes 3 the .4tivetasire, VAX.I.6Y, from—Y4r -t ha- -s.hip Sophia, 4 new vessel, hone Newcastle, in ballast,' bound 10 Bristol; also arl'hecl"a Prusian brig from the Stra,ts. Fast from W,lterford. Went into Harbour the Constant gun -brig. PO RTSNI 0 UT 1-1, DEC. 13 7 —Come in tine trigaie will, e‘ enil of ber coti)oy. It is repotted tital.a...West-LudiArnott-ii -011.411t)re on the Oars 5.--tl l4 Jolin, of Newcastle, mentioned yesterday to have engaged a French Privateer, for azi hour and a 430; has come into ha. - bottr, the naasier is on board 0 1 ° kivateer, the male and two men were killed in ti. 6 action ; there were several lugger privateers seen the fleet last night, Captain MANNIivG of the Charming Kitty, saw one of the Beet fire seva ral- shot at them. Arrived this day his Majesty's ships Revenge, Do negal, Fuwri p andifarpy, front a cruize; his Mil jebty's shipiSyrett, from the Downs; the Howard, -, from Lisbon; and the Riga packet, WillTe, fram the Downs. This day salted his Majesty's ships Hope and Plover, fur a cruize. Weni 'out of harbour this day his Majesty's ship Belle) option , His Majesty's ships Clyde and Fury carue into harbour, this day. The whole of the West-India fleet, which sailed under convoy of his Majes►y's ship Naiad, put this morning. DEAL, DEC. 1 3.—Arrived his, Majesty's ship Tal bot, with 12 sail of vessels from Cork. Put back the Speculator lugger and her convq , that sailed on the 11 th inst. ; and thq brig Standard► GOODWEIR, with the loss of anchors and cables. FALMOUTH, DEC. 11.—Sailed his Majesty's shipf L'fli~ le and Tyrian, with the Poi tuguese and Mer diterranean fleets under convoy. A. recent American Paper contains the followie% notice to Mariners :—" There is an error in the Et4, - lopt-an Charts relative to Cape Frio. Ii is laidd.,vvt3 as bring-ice the latitude - of 34. ; but- it IT, fact, in 23.; this error ought to be reCtiticd, tot- by those charts most of ogar vessels will lie ern baye,l;•7° it .being necessary to make Cape Frio before we " If get up to Riu Janeiro?' _ A Singular incident occurred to his Majesty's sooP Ppthirgits, on the 2d instant :—While on her statint' , in Boulngne Bay, a large Dutch boat was di s coveled . swalsped near her, which on being towed alongside, upset, and was ultimately hoisted in bottom upwart i ' To the astonishment of every one onboard the Po' dargus, thirteen guineas, four half-guineas, s"m e , Frenc,h crowns, and oth er s ilv e r pi eces were . Woo her and there can be nu doubt much mote would have been saved, had sire not unfortunately. capsi2 d. Her lashings which had been cut, wer e in her, , and every thing the indicated her loOng been got oil some vessel's deck in a great hurry...' Three of the half-guineas were quite new. • SAXON Col NS .—A short time ago, in ploughing ° field at,Flaxton, near the Loster-house,aleader'box was turned up by the plou g h, w hich coniai"' d a4.Out 300 small Saxon silver coins, in hi g h,,prcier" %ration, some silver rings, and pieces of spurs. , •